Ethiopia refugee camp submerged by floods

Ethiopia’s Lietchuor camp, home to almost 40,000 refugees from South Sudan, has been made uninhabitable by flooding, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said.

The medical charity said in a statement on Friday that the camp in Ethiopia’s Gambella region resembled “a lake dotted with islands’.’

“The road built on a strip of elevated land is the only remaining habitable area, and some of the refugees have set up their tents there. Others have left the camp, with hundreds sheltering with host communities in nearby villages or in churches,” MSF said…

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